On 11/29/2013 7:28 PM, Chris Radek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 05:27:17PM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> >> I think a #include-like directive would be both useful and easy to >> implement, but i'm not volunteering to do it. ;-) > > I think this might be barking up the wrong tree: a tree that only > you and your fellow programmers can see. > > I gently suggest considering whether concentrating on our > configurators like stepconf might be better in the long run for > fixing the root problem: that configuring is intricate and hard for > the new user. [actually I'm not sure what "root problem" Charles is > trying to solve so I am guessing here -- something stepconf doesn't > currently handle perhaps?]
If you're volunteering to write "3D-Conf" that runs on the BeagleBone and is geared towards 3D printers, I'm willing to test it out! :) Basically, what I'm trying to do is make it safer for an end user to modify their setup for a 3D printer. At the moment, that means trying to put some things the user can and should change (like axis gain) into a file separate from a bunch of stuff they shouldn't be changing (like the gcode interpreter). Unlike mill retrofits, there is a *LOT* of commonality between the RepRap flavor 3D printers that can be pre-configured and stored in a few common files, but some things still need to be setup for a specific machine (axis gain, maximum accelerations, etc). I can do a lot of things like adjust homing switch polarity via HAL, but AFAIK the top-level motion stuff (ie: [TRAJ] and [AXIS n]) has to come from an INI file. That's why I'm wanting to have a more modular way to build the INI. As for stepconf or other auto-generated config files, I think this is a good option. I also think a simplified "flat" HAL/INI file setup is OK to require if you're going to use an automated config generation tool like StepConf. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net
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